Daily Horoscope for Gemini

Horoscope Cast for Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

by daniel "bud" dowd

Daily Horoscope for Gemini Summary

Sometimes, I don't think we give the world enough credit in terms of the options at our disposal. If you want to cut the grass outside, you have push mowers, electric or gas mowers, ones you can ride one, you can pay someone else to cut your grass using their resources. If you want to buy shampoo, there's 30 varieties. If you feel like pudding in a cup, there's another dozen different kinds (though not pistachio, which is a crime). At times, we struggle with the fact that there's too many options, but overall, we get a lot of opportunities in life to make choices.

Then you get a transit like this one, where people are likely to make arguments for why one option is "best". People love superlatives in present times - this is the best soft-drink; that political entity is the worst. We toss these ideas around willy-nilly, but they seep into our overall mindset. It's a reinforcement of extremes and makes it much more difficult to convey what exists in the in-between. You see it in metaphors and speech where people set a bar for the relation between one real thing (often something not impressive in its scale) and some superlative.

As an example, think of every instance where someone compared Donald Trump to Hitler. Hitler is basically the extreme bar we've set to define the absolute worst elements of what a human is. Hitler is "Hitler" because most people can't comprehend someone worse (though if you dig through history, you could make arguments for others). However you feel about Donald Trump, he's nowhere in the realm of Hitler.

Now if you think poorly of Donald Trump (or Joe Biden, or whoever the political pariah of the day may be), and someone worse comes along, then you have a linguistic dilemma - how do you describe the fact that person is worse if you've already maxed out the scale? You have to stretch or break the scale, which in turn damages the capacity for people to grade things on said scale. You see it in a lot of our political discourse - that's the best example - where everything is constantly pushed towards an expanding extreme, but this type of thing happens everywhere around you, on the internet, describing run of the mill key lime pie, sports icons, yelp reviews of a mid-tier restaurant, anything where judgment is involved. Remember that in a world where everything is special, nothing is special. It's the crappy cake that Aunt Maureen made at the family picnic that makes the good ones shine.

So with all of that said, today's energy will push you to use superlatives freely and without repercussions, especially when you're pushing for one direct way for things to be done. But don't be a lunatic about it. There are a ton of ways to get things done, a ton of options at your disposal, an indescribably large way to judge most things on a scale, especially when everyone on earth is using a different scale. I can say with 99% certainty, no one is going to encounter the "best" or "worst" example of anything today, so don't treat things like they are. It will allow you to consider so much more. Best of luck.

Bud

The Daily Horoscope for Gemini

Don't mistake hurdles in the way of doing the things you want to do as some kind of personal affront. It's too easy to shift blame from "the actual reasons" to something that's easier for you to gripe about to others. Additionally, that sort of thing seeps into your mindset and you start believing it. This is a time where if you're inventive, you can find some ways to work around the problems that are in front of you. Often the blueprint is somewhere in your past already; you just need to update it to fit your present situations.